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Posted: August 15, 2011 - 12:05am

LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles County prosecutors will decide this week whether to press charges against The Game, after a tweet from the rapper’s account incited a telephone flash mob that overwhelmed the emergency phone system at a sheriff’s station.

Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said Sunday that agency officials will send the results of their criminal investigation to the district attorney’s office in the next few days.

Whitmore says The Game, whose real name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, could face a number of misdemeanor counts. Deputies have yet to make contact with the rapper.

VIENNA TOWNSHIP, Mich.

A Maltese dog that disappeared more than a year ago after a fatal car crash in New Mexico has been returned to surviving family members in Michigan.

The crash in June last year killed Gary Benson and his daughter, Emily. Afterward, his wife and four surviving children searched unsuccessfully for the family pet named Caesar.

Monica Benson told New Mexico’s Quay County Sun she posted pictures of Caesar and her son, Benjamin, in Benjamin’s hospital room while then-18-month-old recovered and he kept asking where the dog was.

JACKSONVILLE, N.C.

A North Carolina woman is frantically trying to find mementos she mistakenly sold that had belonged to her husband, a Marine killed while serving in Iraq.

The Daily News of Jacksonville reports that Lindsay Whitehouse said she sold a suitcase Aug. 6 at a yard sale. The couple who bought it said they planned to resell the suitcase at an in-state flea market.

After they left, Whitehouse realized the suitcase contained awards, memorial items and photographs belonging to her husband, 27-year-old Staff Sgt. Jason Whitehouse. He was killed in action in 2007. The suitcase also contained family photos.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska

Four people have died in a plane crash in the Alaska wilderness.

Alaska State Troopers say two others on board survived. Troopers spokeswoman Beth Ipsen did not know their conditions and said the identities of those on board have not been confirmed.

Troopers say rescuers arrived Sunday at the site of the downed Inland Aviation Service plane, which departed Saturday evening from the town of McGrath, about 225 miles northwest of Anchorage.